Who Remembers Beer Backpacks at Tulane Stadium?

before my time...was it just like a keg on there back and they filled up cups?

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was it just like a keg on there back and they filled up cups?

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Yep. Guys walked around Tulane Stadium like beer astronauts.

ETa. There was a black guy outside the stadium selling peanuts.."Peanuts, 10 cents a bag..3 bags for a quarta."

Yeah, and they used to rotate the brands around the stadium. One brand had the 2 end zones, another had east, and the third has west. Dixie, Falstaff and Jax, I think.

The guys would go back when the tank was empty. They'd sit down, the center cap was popped and they would fill with cold beer out of a tap. The CO2 tank pushed the beer out of the spigot. The cups were stored in the backpack, too.

Popcorn came in these. When you were done, you could turn them into a megaphone.

Yes to the doubloons. I think I have a complete set.

You can get them cheap on Ebay.

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There was a black guy outside the stadium selling peanuts.."Peanuts, 10 cents a bag..3 bags for a quarta."

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I'm pretty sure he said "a dime a bag, 3 bags for a quawta", but thanks for the memory.

Yep - as a kid, we used to go scurrying around the stadium after the game, looking for discarded programs and checking to see if any doubloons were left inside. One year they sold a bronze set of the doubloons.
I also recall that the beer back packs caused a few fights in the stands, when the beermen would turn to the side, they would occasionally smack the fan sitting on the aisle in the face with the back of the beerpack.
They went to the beer backpack after they sold beer in a can the first season - too many people were heaving half filled cans on the field at the refs at the end of the games!

Lol! Didn't remember his name, but definitely recall the "gifted" beerman.

Yep, Rember all that!!!!

Was too young to drink but I'll never forget them carrying those tanks!!

My Pops and uncles would get one and I'd have to pass them down!!!

They would yell, "BOY YOU BETTER NOT SPILL IT"!!!!!!

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Yeah, and they used to rotate the brands around the stadium. One brand had the 2 end zones, another had east, and the third has west. Dixie, Falstaff and Jax, I think.

The guys would go back when the tank was empty. They\'d sit down, the center cap was popped and they would fill with cold beer out of a tap. The CO2 tank pushed the beer out of the spigot. The cups were stored in the backpack, too.

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this sounds so vintage New orleans, sorry I wasnt around to experience it!